Estimating Overview
Create, send, and manage professional estimates in PaintScout using production rates, line items, and customer-ready proposals.
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Create, send, and manage professional estimates in PaintScout using production rates, line items, and customer-ready proposals.
Start here: New to PaintScout estimating? Begin with Understanding Production Rates and Calculate Your Hourly Rate.
PaintScout helps you build consistent estimates from your production rates, hourly rate, line items, and customer-ready proposals. This section covers the full workflow, from creating an estimate to sending it, managing revisions, and sharing work orders with your crew.
Creating Estimates — Start a new estimate, learn the estimate page, use the sidebar, and manage estimate actions
Areas & Rates — Add areas and production rates, then adjust dimensions, coats, and prep hours
Line Items & Options — Add fixed-price work, create customer options, and manage change orders
Organizing Estimates — Group content, hide internal items, copy estimate content, and add media
Notes & Communication — Use estimator notes, crew notes, and other note types to keep everyone aligned
Sending & Acceptance — Send proposals, collect signatures, and understand the customer acceptance flow
Managing estimates & work orders — Review activity, restore versions, search records, export results, archive estimates, and share crew-facing work orders
Understanding Production Rates — Learn how PaintScout turns measurements into hours and pricing
Calculate Your Hourly Rate — Build an hourly rate that covers costs and profit
What is a Sales Rate? — Understand total price compared to total project hours
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